concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with income and life, and relative deprivation/satisfaction, i …-being depending more on relative satisfaction than on absolute levels of income. This finding holds even after controlling for other …

will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their …'s actual household income on parents' satisfaction can be found. However, children's health and education have a positive … parental life satisfaction on the predicted life satisfaction of their children. A significant positive effect can be found …

We quantify the value of changes in life circumstances in Germany following reunification. To this end, we develop and … implement a fixed-effect estimator for ordinal life satisfaction in the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find strong negative … effects on life satisfaction from being recently fired, losing a spouse through either death or separation and time spent in …

associated with job satisfaction, even though the self-employed often earn less than their employed peers, work longer hours and … enjoy higher overall life satisfaction, which is due to heterogeneity of types of self-employment, as well as motivational …

associated with job satisfaction, even though the self-employed often earn less than their employed peers, work longer hours and … enjoy higher overall life satisfaction, which is due to heterogeneity of types of self-employment, as well as motivational …